I upgraded to 4.2 yesterday (thx for the cmd line help Sailoog)
Performance improvement is noticable but there seem to be issues with plugin installation/purging and none of mine (except status bar) currently work (all greyed out) I believe that it has been reported but if anyone has any ideas ...

I upgraded to 4.2 yesterday (thx for the cmd line help Sailoog)
Performance improvement is noticable but there seem to be issues with plugin installation/purging and none of mine (except status bar) currently work (all greyed out) I believe that it has been reported but if anyone has any ideas ...

There is no enable button !
Thanks for replying to my call for help.
BDBCAT on the maine OCPN RPI thread is looking at my log file for me also.
Regards
Steve

Sorry, I'm sure you've checked already, but after the upgrade this got me - have you tried making the window much wider? I thought the same at first but the enable button was hidden, making the window wider revealed it.

Sorry, I'm sure you've checked already, but after the upgrade this got me - have you tried making the window much wider? I thought the same at first but the enable button was hidden, making the window wider revealed it.

Thanks Conachair

YUP you're right.
If I open up the window to its max width (Approx 90% of screen width) I can just see the edge of the enable button peeking out.

You can download this as a place to start if you like.
It's got more ports and capabilities than you'll need. More than likely you'll need only two ports, the PACTOR one and the Telnet one (you'll need telnet if you want to do control/configuration over your LAN). Also got an AXIP port, two 2m AX25 ports, and one 1.25m AX25 port.

Sailoog - Help!
OK, I'm trying to get data from an arduino into signalk.Wind data is working, from a nasa sensor which sends the wrong nmea0183 checksum, the arduino recalcs that. All good so far.
So apparently it's better just to send straight signalk strings..

Quote:

Unless you need NMEA0183 output for something (like streaming to Apps) it is a lot more efficient to just parse line oriented Signal K delta coming from the Arduino.

So, I realize this is more of a signalk thing but I feel I'm so far over my head any info is useful - so does openplotter just push whatever it sees on the nmea comm ports to signalk or is it just nmea sentences with a good checksum?
I'm assuming that's where signalK gets the com port data from.
Any tips how I can survive this rapid JSON learning curve are most grateful

Then openplotter (kplex) combines UDP localhost 10110 data with all the serial and network devices created by user in an unique data steam on TCP localhost 10110. OpenCPN reads from this stream.

You could take data from TCP localhost 10110, filter it and sent it to another port. Finally you could set opencpn to read from this new port.

Against your advice (and probably my own good opinion, too), I decided to ditch the Arduino altogether and give it a go. Besides, I think what you're doing with OpenPlotter is way cooler than what I wanted to do, and why duplicate effort?

But I do have one question: does OpenPlotter (or OpenCPN on this distro) dampen or smooth out heading or wind or any other data?

You can download this as a place to start if you like.
It's got more ports and capabilities than you'll need. More than likely you'll need only two ports, the PACTOR one and the Telnet one (you'll need telnet if you want to do control/configuration over your LAN). Also got an AXIP port, two 2m AX25 ports, and one 1.25m AX25 port.